Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment the resolution seemed upon the point of passing; the vexed question of "disarmament" was to be shelved again. Then up rose Count Apponyi, that lean Hungarian statesman, a grand seigneur of legend, whose pointed white beard, flaring Roman nostrils, and face of parchment, give him, when he is solemn, the air of an exiled patriarch, and, when he laughs, that of a goat. He swept the conclave with proud and sombre eyes. Twisting a little paper in his hand he began to speak...
...Tokyo stood a low rambling structure of wood and stucco, in which the Japanese House of Peers and House of Representatives have been cooped and cramped for decades. Last week entered several students where many a statesman has trod...
Died. Lady Amy Elizabeth Parker, wife of the famed statesman-novelist-playwright Sir Gilbert Parker; at the Harbor Sanitarium (New York City), after an illness of a year...
...highest abilities. Of him wrote Albert Edward Wiggam in his famed book, The New Decalogue of Science: "Glenn Frank's career, in my judgment, will be one of the world events of the coming generation. His genius, scholarship, poise and insight represent the new type of statesman, of whom I have endeavored to write...
Died. Rene Viviani, 62 French Statesman (Premier in 1914), noted attorney, creator with Briand and Millerand in 1904 of the Republican Socialist Party, enlightened and patriotic pacifist, member of the Briand "Sacred Union" the War Cabinet which included every then living former Premier, "as an orator unequaled in the history of France"; of "complete collapse following illness", at the Malmaison Sanitarium...